The Port of Alexandria has backed out of signing a contract with Sesco Trans to construct a drydock, two years after having awarded the company the contract. The stated reason: the company’s insistence on including a non-compete prohibiting the construction of another drydock at the port for 25 years, Alex Port head Medhat Attia told Al Shorouk. An unnamed source from Sesco Trans told the newspaper that the clause in question would only give the company priority in future tenders on drydock works at the port.

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